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Metro Newspaper UK A COMPUTER security expert who told the world how to write computer passwords 14 years ago has now admitted he got it wrong. Bill Burr wrote guidelines in 2003 urging people to use capital letters, numbers and symbols. However, he now says this … |
Biology and technology are moving closer and experts are wondering if this poses a new security threat
Naked Security – Sophos
Paul Marcarelli – an actor better known as the “Can you hear me now?” guy – spent nine years profiting from a Verizon ad campaign that made his face famous and that phrase a part of the lexicon. That gig ended in 2011.
Now he’s begun selling Sprint. In the new commercial he says he switched teams because Sprint’s service has become so wonderful. In real life, we all know he switched because Sprint is now helping him pay his bills. That’s fine. If AT&T had wanted Marcarelli’s services it would be the wonders of AT&T that the actor would be extolling on TV. Here’s the ad:
Now there’s absolutely nothing to criticize about an actor earning a living. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong here.
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Credit card data isn’t quite the mother lode it once was for cyber thieves. Not only is its useful life generally brief, it also isn’t worth as much as it used to be.
But cyber criminals are, among other things, adaptable. As Daniel Berger, CEO of Redspin puts it, “hackers are bad guys but good economists.” So they simply turn to something that provides a bigger bang for the buck.
And that, increasingly, is the data you voluntarily turn over to doctors, hospitals and health insurers, known as PHI, or Personal Health Information.
The Identity Theft Resource Center reported in January that of reported breaches, the healthcare sector had the most for three years in a row, with 42.5% of the total in 2014.
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